Design and experimental verification of ridge gap waveguide in bed of nails for parallel-plate mode suppression

IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 262-270

  Kildal, P S ^a   Zaman, A U ^a   Rajo Iglesias, E ^b   Alfonso, E ^c   Valero Nogueira, A ^c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED OF NAILS; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; HARDWARE DEMONSTRATOR; HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES; LOW LOSS; MEASURED RESULTS; METAL POSTS; MODE SUPPRESSION; PARALLEL METAL PLATES; PARALLEL PLATES; STOPBAND; TRANSVERSE ELECTROMAGNETIC MODE; TWO PLATES; VECTOR NETWORKS; WAVE-GUIDING;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; METALS; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS;

EID: 79951531893     PISSN: 17518725     EISSN: 17518733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2010.0089     Document Type: Article

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